Benedict has several movies coming up, including August: Osage County, The Fifth Estate and Star Trek Into Darkness.

According to the Daily Mail, the actor has revealed he ate 4,000 calories a day and worked out for hours to bulk up to play a menacing villain in the Star Trek film.

He told SFX magazine: "It was the first time I'd really intensely shape-shifted... To go up from a 38 chest to a 42, eating 4,000 calories a day and training two hours a day, as well as the stunt rehearsals and fight choreography, was the most physical demand that's ever been made of me for the screen."